Summary
At high latitudes, anthropogenic climate change and invasive species threaten biodiversity, often with interacting effects. Climate change not only impacts native plant species directly by driving distribution and abundance of species, but indirectly through the influence on community dynamics and habitat suitability to invasive species. A key obstacle to quantifying vegetation change in the sub-Antarctic is the scarcity of cloud-free satellite imagery in a region with near-permanent cloud cover and lack of long-term plot data. In this paper, we aim to address the following questions: how has vegetation in the sub-Antarctic changed between 1965 and 2020? What are the roles of climate change and invasive species in driving these changes?
Authors:van der Merwe S. Greve M. Hoffman M.T. Skowno A.L. Pallett N. Terauds A. Chown S.L. Cramer M.D.
Published in: 2024
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
Program area: Other
van der Merwe S., Greve M., Hoffman M.T., Skowno A.L., Pallett N., Terauds A., Chown S.L., Cramer M.D.
(2024)
Repeat photography reveals long-term climate change impacts on sub-Antarctic tundra vegetatio,
Journal of Vegetation Science
35(6).
e70002;
doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70002;